This is Penn State

This is Penn State

WHERE WE STAND

For more than 150 years we've been leaders in higher education, as shown by rankings from those who monitor academe from the outside. Here are a few examples of recent rankings, primarily relating to our academic standing.

RECENT RANKINGS

U.S. News & World Report, America's Best Graduate Schools 2016

BusinessSmeal College of Business overall tied for 36thSupply Chain/Logistics 5th

Social Sciences and HumanitiesSociology of Population, 6thCriminology, tied for 5thSociology, tied for 17thEconomics, 27thPolitical Science, tied for 28thEnglish, tied for 26thPsychology, tied for 30thDevelopmental Psychology, tied for 5th

Total S&E Research Expenditure Rankings (For FY2013, released February 2015)In the most recent institutional rankings released by the National Science Foundation of total research expenditures for science and engineering, Penn State stands second in the nation in the number of fields in which it is ranked in the top ten.

Penn State Hershey Children's Hospital has been ranked among the top 50 U.S. hospitals in six specialties—cancer, cardiology and heart surgery, nephrology, neurology and neurosurgery, orthopedics and urology—in U.S. News & World Report's 2014-15 Best Children's Hospitals rankings.Penn State ranks 7th among "flagship" schools whose recent graduates earn the highest median starting salaries. (2013)

Kiplinger’s Personal Finance “Best Values in Public Colleges”

Kiplinger's Personal Finance for 2014-15 named Penn State as one of the 100 Best Values in Public Colleges, for in-state students, recognizing the University among four-year schools that combine outstanding education with economic value. Penn State's ranking is 56. Penn State also ranked in the top 100 for out-of-state students (68). (12/2014)

Penn State is ranked at No. 46 for 2014 in the Center for World University Rankings, up from No. 50 in 2013. The list includes national and international schools. Criteria for the rankings are: quality of faculty, publications in top journals, highly influential research, citations, patents, academic training of students, and professional future of alumni.

ADDITIONAL RANKINGS

Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2013-14

Penn State has been named one of the top universities in the world, ranking 49th, up 12 positions from 2012-13 and considered in the top 1 percent of higher education institutions worldwide. (10/2013)

Center for World University Rankings 2013, Top 100

Penn State is ranked at No. 50 for 2013 in the Center for World University Rankings, up from No. 64 in 2012. The list includes national and international schools. Criteria for the rankings are: quality of faculty, publications in top journals, highly influential research, citations, patents, academic training of students, and professional future of alumni.

U.S. News annual Best Children's Hospitals: Penn State Hershey Children's Hospital is ranked in five specialities—cancer treatment; urology; orthopedics; neurology and neurosurgery; and cardiology and heart surgery. (2013-14)

Penn State ranks 10th in the U.S., and No. 1 in Pennsylvania for the second year in a row, with a record number of international students—6,693 at University Park—according to the Institute of International Education's "Open Doors" report for 2012-13, an annual statistical survey of international students in the nation. The report also ranks Penn State at 19th for the number of students studying abroad (1,926) for 2011-12. (2012-13)

Kiplinger’s Personal Finance “Best Values in Public Colleges”

Kiplinger's Personal Finance for 2012-13 named Penn State as one of the 100 Best Values in Public Colleges, recognizing the University among four-year schools that combine outstanding education with economic value. Penn State's ranking is No. 48. (2012)

Association of Research Libraries: Penn State University Libraries rank 8th among North American research libraries, based on ARL's Library Investment Index Rankings for 2011-12. (2013)

The Education Trust

Penn State named among top 25 “gap-closers” for minority students: In reports released by The Education Trust, Penn State is among the top six U.S. institutions for closing the graduation gap for African American and Hispanic students. Penn State is the No. 21 graduation-rate gap-closer for Hispanic students among public institutions and No. 18 for African American students. (10/2012)

Academic Ranking of World Universities (AWRU)

ARWU has ranked Penn State at 49th in its 2012 ranking of the top 100 world-class universities. The University is one of five Big Ten universities and one of only two Pennsylvania schools to make the top 50.

The Chronicle of Higher Education ranks Penn State as the top producer of Fulbright scholars among research institutions -- and all institutions, as well -- in the nation. (2011-12)

National Research Corporation: Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center has been named a 2011-12 Consumer Choice Award winner for Pennsylvania for the 13th consecutive year. (2011-12)

U.S. News annual Best Colleges rankings: Penn State tied for 20th nationally in Best Undergraduate Business Programs. In Undergraduate business specialties: Supply Chain Management/Logistics, Penn State ranks 3rd. (2011)

U.S. News annual Best Colleges rankings: Penn State tied for 17th nationally in Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs. In Undergraduate Engineering Specialities: Aerospace/Aeronautical/Astronautical, Penn State ranks 10th; and in Industrial/Manufacturing Engineering, Penn State ranks 4th. (2011)

The UTD Top 100 Business School Research Rankings: Penn State Smeal College of Business ranks 15th among all U.S. and international business schools and 4th among publicly supported schools for scholarly research output, according to data from the University of Texas at Dallas. (2011)

Tim Baird’s project, “Urban Arboreta: Tree Nurseries Transform Vacant Lands,” has been chosen as a winner of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation’s Knight Cities Challenge. Baird, professor of landscape architecture at Penn State and Deenah Loeb, Executive Director of City Parks Association of Philadelphia, co-authored one of the 32 wining proposals from an initial applicant pool of 7,000 that had been narrowed down to the 126 finalists who submitted detailed proposals.

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